The Windows version of Opera is lean, fast, and far superior to both Navigator and Explorer for those same reasons. I liked it so much that I bought version 3.50 when it was released.
I have a number of questions:
1. Will my windows license be transferrable? I have a sneaking suspicion that Opera for Linux will be released as a time-limited demo version that can be "unlocked" by entering the appropriate serial number, just as the windows version is. I'm not at all sure how this will fly with the linux community, given that a few good choices are already available.
2. The linux version of their browser was demoed at the Linux Expo, and Troll Tech ported their gui to Qt...these seem like newsworthy events, I suppose. But the "progress meter" on their site has been hovering around the 25% mark for half a *year*. Why, then, have slashdot et al pounced upon this like the information came out yesterday?
We all need to remember that it's the dire prospect of simply not making as MUCH money that has the m$ board of trustees and associated bigwigs worried.
When you're so rooted in an industry as to almost be considered a utility rather than a company, you don't just suddenly go bankrupt one day. Look at the dinosaurs of IBM and AT&T--cut into pieces, forming new divisions and discarding old ones, but still unshakeable.
It could be reasoned that the only way the m$ entity could screw things up for itself is by ruining the trust the Public seem to have in it. As more and more of what has been going on in the DOJ proceedings comes to light (or is supressed, whatever the case may be), MicroSoft is becoming less like the Big Brother you play catch and drink beer with and more like the Big Brother from a George Orwell novel.
This is just another example of m$ demonstrating that it doesn't really deserve that trust. If they don't feel that the Public have enough sense to make intelligent buying descisions, or even have the right to see competing products outperform and surpass their own on an even playing field--then where does that leave us?
You think THAT's bad???
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For some reason, I was under the impression that it was the Brains who were calling it quits, not the network giving them the axe. Hmm...
Oddly enough, its videotaped episodes of MST3K that have kept me going the past couple of months, and let me tell you why:
I get but ONE channel that shows "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman", "Diagnosis Murder", "Touched by an Uncle", and "The Andy Griffith Show" round-the-clock. Excuse me while I go shoot myself..
Alls you do is enable your swap space before you install, so that you don't run out of memory. With Slack this is easy--it even gives you directions on how to do it when you boot off the standard disks.
And, yes, if you want a barebones linux system, Slackware is an excellent route. Chances are that you'd also want the "n" part of the distro as well as the "a", which will make your HD requirements considerably greater.
From the look of the Changelog, slack 4.0 has the same gnu libraries as 3.6. Everything was compiled against libc5, and you get only RUNTIME SUPPORT for libc6. I believe Patrick has chosen to do this simply because to this day glibc2 is a little sketchy in some areas, whereas libc5 is still solid as a rock, but aging quickly.
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The Windows version of Opera is lean, fast, and far superior to both Navigator and Explorer for those same reasons. I liked it so much that I bought version 3.50 when it was released.
I have a number of questions:
1. Will my windows license be transferrable? I have a sneaking suspicion that Opera for Linux will be released as a time-limited demo version that can be "unlocked" by entering the appropriate serial number, just as the windows version is. I'm not at all sure how this will fly with the linux community, given that a few good choices are already available.
2. The linux version of their browser was demoed at the Linux Expo, and Troll Tech ported their gui to Qt...these seem like newsworthy events, I suppose. But the "progress meter" on their site has been hovering around the 25% mark for half a *year*. Why, then, have slashdot et al pounced upon this like the information came out yesterday?
Slow news day? Not informed? Who knows.
--JM
We all need to remember that it's the dire prospect of simply not making as MUCH money that has the m$ board of trustees and associated bigwigs worried.
When you're so rooted in an industry as to almost be considered a utility rather than a company, you don't just suddenly go bankrupt one day. Look at the dinosaurs of IBM and AT&T--cut into pieces, forming new divisions and discarding old ones, but still unshakeable.
It could be reasoned that the only way the m$ entity could screw things up for itself is by ruining the trust the Public seem to have in it. As more and more of what has been going on in the DOJ proceedings comes to light (or is supressed, whatever the case may be), MicroSoft is becoming less like the Big Brother you play catch and drink beer with and more like the Big Brother from a George Orwell novel.
This is just another example of m$ demonstrating that it doesn't really deserve that trust. If they don't feel that the Public have enough sense to make intelligent buying descisions, or even have the right to see competing products outperform and surpass their own on an even playing field--then where does that leave us?
For some reason, I was under the impression that it was the Brains who were calling it quits, not the network giving them the axe. Hmm...
Oddly enough, its videotaped episodes of MST3K that have kept me going the past couple of months, and let me tell you why:
I get but ONE channel that shows "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman", "Diagnosis Murder", "Touched by an Uncle", and "The Andy Griffith Show" round-the-clock. Excuse me while I go shoot myself..
Alls you do is enable your swap space before you install, so that you don't run out of memory. With Slack this is easy--it even gives you directions on how to do it when you boot off the standard disks.
And, yes, if you want a barebones linux system, Slackware is an excellent route. Chances are that you'd also want the "n" part of the distro as well as the "a", which will make your HD requirements considerably greater.
From the look of the Changelog, slack 4.0 has the same gnu libraries as 3.6. Everything was compiled against libc5, and you get only RUNTIME SUPPORT for libc6. I believe Patrick has chosen to do this simply because to this day glibc2 is a little sketchy in some areas, whereas libc5 is still solid as a rock, but aging quickly.
;)
What, me? No, I use RedHat.